Frames & Framing

Bringing the designer-maker studio tradition to picture framing, we provide beautiful handcrafted hardwood frames as well as sensitive intelligent custom framing design and full framing service. These are “closed-corner” frames and are made to order and from scratch. At our showroom we display hundreds of designs and constantly develop new ones, but because our capacities are unlimited we’re able to provide completely individualized framing — a setting in perfect sympathy with, and unique as, the picture. Frame styles range from delicate “drawing” frames to massive architectural designs, from plain and simple to detailed and more decorative. Techniques include fine joinery, sensitively shaped and proportioned profiling, hand-carved and painted details, and gilding (directly on oak — a favorite period treatment). We urge you to visit us, if at all possible, with your artwork — but we’re also fully prepared to meet your needs by mail order.

While custom framing, and customized frames, are the heart of our work, we also offer frames all made and available for purchase. See what’s In Stock…

We are a complete custom framing service. Through our showroom & by mail order we provide everything from design to frame-making to expert archival framing, delivering to you a picture ready to hang on your wall.

More About Framing—

While most frames today are joined from mass-produced, pre-finished molding, closed-corner frames are finished after joining. The traditional method makes for stronger, cleaner corners — and more enduring and beautiful frames.

Part of our mission is to provide a humbler alternative to the well-entrenched, but frequently deplored, convention of using gilt frames on paintings. "Before" and "after" shots of gold frames we've replaced make the case for the effectiveness of dark wood frames.

If it’s worth framing, it’s worth framing right. But that doesn’t mean the framing has to be expensive. Do you have a picture you want to get up on the wall in a nice frame but at little expense? For items 16″ x 20″ or smaller, we’ll provide archival custom framing (u.v.-filtering glass and acid free mat and backing) and a fine handcrafted hardwood frame—all at a discounted price of just $290.